E-Therapy
Our therapists are licensed in the state of Minnesota. We will provide you with full credentialing at your request. There is a link below with information on therapists credentials.
Online counseling - “E-Therapy” - is a viable alternative source of help when traditional psychotherapy is not accessible. It is effective. It is private. It is conducted by skilled, qualified, ethical professionals, and for some people, it's the only way they can get help from a professional therapist. E-Therapy is not a substitute for traditional psychotherapy. Working with a therapist in person is still better, but many people cannot or will not see a therapist in person. E-Therapy is a form of counseling which, though it falls short of full-fledged psychotherapy, is still a very effective source of help.
We offer Real Time sessions with a therapist in a private "chat" format.
We offer E-Therapy with communication with a therapist via e-mail.
We offer PC videocam and videophone sessions with a therapist
E-Therapy is not for people who are considering hurting themselves or others, and not for people under the age of 18 without parental consent (which must be set up in person). If you are having thoughts of hurting yourself or others PLEASE call one of the following numbers, your local police department, hospital, or call 911:
Consumer's Rights:
To participate in developing an individual
plan of treatment.
To receive an explanation of services in
accordance with the treatment plan.
To participate voluntarily in and to consent
to treatment.
To object to, or terminate, treatment.
To have records protected by confidentiality
and not be revealed to anyone without my written authorization.
To have access to one's records.
To receive clinically appropriate care and
treatment that is suited to their needs and skillfully, safely, and humanely
administered with full respect for their dignity and personal integrity.
To be treated in a manner which is ethical and
free from abuse, discrimination, mistreatment, and/or exploitation.
To be treated by staff who are sensitive to
one's cultural background.
To be afforded privacy.
To be free to
report
grievances regarding services or staff to a supervisor.
To be informed of expected results of all
therapies prescribed, including their possible adverse effects (eg.-
medications).
To request a change in therapist.
To request that another clinician review the
individual treatment plan for a second opinion.
Confidentiality may only be broken under the following conditions
If the therapist has knowledge of child or elder abuse.
If the therapist has knowledge of the client's intent to harm oneself or others.
If the therapist receives a court order to the contrary.
If the client enters into litigation against the therapist.
Technical Limits to Confidentiality in the Online World
Contact information - The same areas of legitimate limits to confidentiality exist online as much as they do in the real world.
Potential areas of confidentiality breaches - e-mail accidental recipient - A
consumer or therapist may accidentally send a confidential e-mail to an unintended recipient.
One solution to this problem is to emphasize the importance of double-checking one's recipient list in the e-mail before
pressing the Send button.
Unauthorized access to your e-mail - Another legitimate risk is the unauthorized access to your e-mail by either another
member of your staff, the public, or your family. People share computing resources all the time.
Confidentiality of electronic communications cannot be easily ensured according to figures quoted in the Feb. 8, 1999 issue of Internet Week, 3.4 trillion e-mail messages were delivered in the U.S. in 1998. 2.1 billion e-mail messages are sent daily by U.S. users. Unless you are doing so from your place of employment, interception of your e-mail by an unauthorized user appears to be an incredibly small risk. It would be impossible to ensure absolutely no risk in such a transaction (just as a real-world therapist cannot ensure absolutely no risk in a real-world transaction, e.g., because they do not know their therapy office has been bugged or a patient's record has been tampered with).